Casper Knight Sr.

      New York Times, July 1, 1948

Article entitled “Casper J. Knight”
- Special to the New York Times -
Philadelphia, June 30 –

  Casper J. Knight, crier of Common Pleas

Court No. 1, collapsed and died last night

in a mid-city restaurant at the age of 62.

  Born in this city and educated in its 

public schools and the Drexel Institute of

Technology, Mr. Knight attained prominence

locally as the playing manager of several

baseball teams and as a Republican ward

leader. He was in the construction business

before becoming a court official in 1941.

Mr. Knight was a director of the Middle

Atlantic Amateur Athletic Union and a

former governor of the Loyal Order of

Moose in Philadelphia.

    He leaves a son, Casper Jr., a former 

football star at Valley Forge Military

Academy and the University of Alabama

and now president of the Philadelphia

County Council, Veterans of Foreign Wars.

(added to Geni by great-grandson Chris Knight)